I just saw 197 servers, some have no players, some do. Now I can't guarantee full human populations in servers considering this game is a few years old already, but I can tell you that servers like Merrill's Marauders hosts bots to keep the gameplay going, while also serving an active DoD Veteran community.

There are still many DoD lovers out there On & Off. I think some moved but most of them didn't move for other games full time but busy with their work & personal life. Most of the above mentioned server owners & few others will continue for some time & I believe at least it will survive some years to come.

indeed as long there are dedicated servers there will be people playing this good game.And if you like these old games like TFC, CS 1.6 or CZ or DoD feel free to add me and have some good time playing those great games

I know with Tribes 2 once they took the master server down(that supported all the dedicated servers as well) a community worked together to make a proxied server that would allow players to see/access it. They hosted what they called "Friday Night Fights" a huge whopping 40vs40 action. I think some of the bigger/medium sized communities left in DoD would do well off making something like this(I was in a server the other day that did something like this only with specific weapons/maps and there wasn't much of a vote that I saw).

Search "TPG day of defeat" in google it will take you to a league for DOD. its ♥♥♥♥in awsome man also search "nineteeneleven day of defeat" in google to find the forum page. 6 vs 6 every sunday night its great